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Energy

The Power Couple: This Battery And Jet Engine Hybrid Will Help California Grab More Renewables

Tomas Kellner
April 17, 2017
On March 23, at exactly 11:19 in the morning, the combined output of California’s copious solar panels and wind farms briefly supplied 49.2 percent of the state’s power demand for the first time. The record was a good omen for America’s most populous state, which is striving to use renewables for half of its electricity consumption by 2030.
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Renewables

This Idea Holds Water: A Rural Montana Town Is About To Make A Splash In Renewable Energy

Tomas Kellner
April 05, 2017
Born Mary Eager in 1926, the daughter of a physics professor blazed through her coursework, graduating in just three years at age 20 thanks to having taken college classes in high school and committing to a grueling year-round schedule. A strict family rule may also have helped. “Studying came first,” said Reynolds. “So no radio could be on if anyone was studying at home.” She was the second woman to graduate with a mechanical engineering degree at what was then Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University).
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Renewables

She’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This Woman’s Job

March 20, 2017
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch. The electrons need to travel 50 miles (80 km) under the sea and then another 50 miles undergroud to make themselves useful. Sibylle Stefan’s job is to get them there.
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Energy

Unstoppable: Why The Next Decade Belongs To Renewable Energy

Yves Rannou President And Ceo Hydro GE Renewable Energy
Debora Frodl GE
March 13, 2017

If last year is any indication, the next decade belongs to renewable energy. Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Yves Rannou, President and CEO for GE Renewable Energy, Hydro, share three reasons that propel the business case for renewable energy.

 

 

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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2017

A man-made power island in the middle of the North Sea that could supply electricity for 80 million people, a robot that could read your mind and spot you noticing it made a mistake, and a DNA-based computer that grows as it computes? Go figure!
 

 

This Is What We Call A Power Island!

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Renewables

Solving The Energy Equation: How Business And The Environment Can Thrive Together

Carlos Pascual Ihs
March 01, 2017

In about two decades, companies and governments will invest between $7 trillion and $11 trillion in renewable energy. Carlos Pascual, senior vice president at IHS, Ecomagination Advisory Board member and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and Mexico, describes four guideposts for stakeholders when it comes to this market's viability.

 

 
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 24, 2017

Researchers built an AI that learned to how to code, found chemicals in a giant lizard’s blood that killed deadly bacteria, and proposed efficient wind turbines fashioned to behave like insect wings. This science will blow you away.
 

This AI Just Learned How To Code

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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

February 10, 2017
Engineers are turning trees into power plants, using sound waves to hear the footsteps of disease, and building an AI that can warn you when you are talking too much. Enough said.
 

This AI Can Tell You When To Shut Up

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best of 2016

Best Photos of 2016: The GE Edition

Tomas Kellner
December 28, 2016
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2016 was no different. Pilot and photographer Adam Senatori flew to the Farnborough International Airshow to photograph the world’s latest and largest planes, Chris New went inside GE’s brand-new 3D-printing factory, and lensman and musician Ruben Wu visited America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. Take a look.
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Solar

The California Duck Must Die (But It's Not What You Think)

Kristin Kloberdanz
December 13, 2016
Solar power might be a shining example of a great renewable-energy source. But combined with existing infrastructure, it’s wreaking havoc on California’s electric power grid. So much so the problem already has a popular name: The California Duck Curve.
Here’s why. When legislators in the Golden State passed a climate-change law mandating that California gets a third of its electricity from renewable energy by 2020, they were hoping to encourage residents to install solar photovoltaic cells.
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